Most people – and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all – are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
BILL VAUGHANNow that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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We didn’t used to think that having several of these little risk factors were a big deal. But it is. These little risk factors add up in a way that is worse for you than one big risk factor.
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One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
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An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.
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The wise individual doesn’t get too attached to any of life’s pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it’s bad for him.
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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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These are days you’ll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
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Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.
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Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn”t be seen dead at
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In the game of life, it’s a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
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On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
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The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
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We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.
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Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
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